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D. The
myth that capitalism is the natural form of social life has now broken
down.
B. What
everyone knew but no one would acknowledge is public knowledge: without
the ("un-natural") help of the state, capitalism cannot survive a
single day.
H. Capital
gleefully points to the "collapse" of socialism as proof that the state
corrupts the spirit of liberty in humans by interfering in the free
market.
J.
The cure: bring back
difference
D.
By color revolutions
against the monochromatic state.
V.
Orange revolution (
X.
The rose revolution (
M.
Well, now capitalism has
its own color revolution.
K.
It is not rose.
G.
It is not orange.
F.
It is a chartreuse
revolution.
P.
Those revolutions were
tragic, this one is farcical.
U.
Like all those color
revolutions, this one too wants more, not less, State and wants it now
and wants it all for itself.
I.
It is turning capital's
institutions into their ghostly difference...
X.
(again).
...Banks, insurance monopolies, the car industry, hedge funds...
Y.
(the schools, hospitals,
public transportation...were already ghosts of themselves).
G. The
ghost is putting the "fear of the end" in everyone so they concede that
the State should remain the executive "committee for managing the common
affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
R.
The collapse of capitalism
according to (mostly) Left economics is a local matter--cheap
money: sub-prime mortgages, the housing bubble, or credit crises.
C.
But these are symptoms
of the pathologies of finance capital, which is itself a symptom.
W.
The cause is the
structures of production.
Q.
The North left (the
cunning economist of capital) has made consumption the root cause and
turned the structural into the local.
Z.
(again) History has, as
always, outdone the left's cunning.
O. The
North left is now in the slow process of disintegrating along with
its patron—cosmopolitan capital.
L.
Its sly slogan that "the
revolutionary task of replacing capitalism now seems outmoded" is now
itself outmoded.
X.
(again and again) No more
infantile leftism.
K.
(again) No more patching
up of capital.
A.
"The Chief Task of Our
Day" in the middle of "Fright at the Fall of the Old" is
"Fight for the New"
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